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    <body><![CDATA[Okay...here I am a month later and I have to say just thinking about this one creeps me out...keep that in mind...<br/><br/><br/>Lizzie and her dad live alone together.  Dad wants to be a bird.  He eats bugs, makes wings, and doesn't do normal adult things at all.  Lizzie is the adult in the fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19969581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In <em>My Dad's a Birdman</em>, author David Almond's first book for young readers, we meet a young girl named Lizzie whose very eccentric father is building wings so that he can fly like a bird. Everyone, including Lizzie's dumpling-obsessed Aunt Doreen, is sure that Lizzie's father is off his rocker is wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40340304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me preface this with the statement that I have read several David Almond books and have always loved them.  This one, written for a younger audience than the ones I read previously, extracted a whole range of feelings from me.  I spent a fair amount of time wondering about the Dad and the questi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38458280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Almond struck a chord that resonated throughout the Kids' Team with My Dad's a Birdman, a novel that is whimsically illustrated and darkly comic in a very British way. The story of Lizzie and her dad bonding over the Great Human Bird Competition (which also serves to mask their grief over Mom'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38896371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Almond is a writer of great mysterious thoughtful novels for older kids and young adults.  This book, <em>Birdman</em>, aims for poignant and quirky, and misses.  It comes off as a slightly creepy book about a little girl whose grieving father has gone off into psychosis.  She's too little to take care...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57106217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do like the book -- love the overall design of it and Dunbar's illustrations (except for where she forgot to put HOLEY slippers on Dad's feet -- and maybe when Dad looks very thin and drawn while the text calls for somewhat a fuller-bellied man who worries about being too heavy to fly.)<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25396732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an odd book.  I picked this up because I love Polly Dunbar's illustrations (and they do not disappoint) and I thought the premise sounded kinda cute -- a father and daughter enter a flying competition dressed as birds.  <br/><br/>It's actually rather disturbing.  The dad is sort of crazy, see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38031080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love David Almond's books because they usually combine some really serious heavy stuff with the wonder of childhood, and it is so true to life, I wonder how the author remembers all of those vivid feelings from childhood.  That being said, I'm not really sure what to make of this book, his first f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30576230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read the bookjacket of this book and saw that there is a character called Mr. Poop, I knew that I HAD to read it.  Well, not only is there a Mr. Poop, but there is also a Mrs. Doody!  <br/><br/>Lizzie's father has decided that he wants to enter The Great Human Bird Competition and is willin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23711471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a dad who wants to enter the flying bird competition and so the dad acts like a bird.his daughter Elizibeth enters with him but her crazy aunt trys to stop them!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this for 30p!! I know its a little bit young for my liking but I just love Almond's work and couldnt resist it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just found this creepy and odd - couldn't get into it and can't imagine who I'd recommend it to....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Airy illustrations, playful, British dialogue and sprightly dipping, gliding narrative give flight to a zany father-daughter adventure that dances delicately between tenderness, tomfoolery, hope and despair landing lightly in the comfort of allied abandon.<br/><br/>You can listen in on our chat ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24755569">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[J ALMOND - fantasy, grief, ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a sweet, quirky book about a father and daughter whose wife/mamm just passed away. The little girl is looking after her father who is supposed to be a little off his rocker. You think he's turned into a bird so he can fly away. It's a story that is funny, sad and filled with hope. Short eno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35137757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun read and read aloud, full of imagination and role reversing humor, this story is a throw back to good, solid well written books like Charlotte's Web and a nice change of pace from Almond's other books for older readers.  The book is also filled with color images seldom seen now in chapter book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22168060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a lovely, off-beat book about a girl and her father dealing with the grief of the loss of the mother/wife. If there is such a thing as poignant humor, this book has it. Polly Dunbar's illustrations are great-- she's the one who illustrated Here's a Little Poem. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One Sentence Review: Generally Almond's delicate prose and complementary darkness can be alluring to me, but when he shoots particularly young (as he does here) it leaves the reader feeling a bit perturbed in the process.]]></body>
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